Re: Jeff Williams' anti-Warehousing idea (Re: Warehousing, TM violations & the new gTLD's)

[Steve Heflin <steve@itw.net>]

great ideas here!:)
> 
> Back to my suggestion of about a month ago. We need a *.dom TLD to be
> issued to all ISO and gTLD registrars (or registry federations, in the
> case of the UK). Most people don't know what a "NIC" is or why they should
> go to internic.net, apnic.net or ripe.net or whatever. If I want to find
> domains in Argentina, then www.ar.dom should get me there. Or www.ro.dom
> for Romania. Or www.ca.dom for Canada. Or www.au.dom for Australia. Or
> www.us.dom for the United States or www.mn.us.dom for Minnesota in the USA
> or whatever. Not to mention www.com.dom, www.net.dom, www.org.dom and so
> forth. These sites could be operated jointly by multiple registrars of new
> gTLDs and the ISO TLDs. They should maintain a linked list of *all* the
> registrars operating within that registry.

im not sure if joint site setups are feasible but the .dom TLD is a peach.

> 
> Among other things, they might maintain a topical directory of domains
> within that TLD. You know how, when you register the domain at NSI, it
> asks you for a brief paragraph outlining the purpose of that domain? Well,
> that's as good as a site description on Yahoo. The database could be
> searchable on that field. Maybe the *.dom sites are even organised like
> little Yahoos, grouping the domains by purpose and subject and topic. I've
> always thought it a shame that Yahoo has emerged as the only viable global
> topical index. But Yahoo is also getting very hard to deal with in terms
> of getting sites registered there.

but indexing in itself is a job all its own as is domreg.  therefore to do
both and do them well is daunting to say the least.  perhaps at least not
in the beginning...

> 
> Bryan Trussler
> (bryan@i-bahn.com)
> 
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